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		<title>Hypocrite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OH Hell</dc:creator>
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<p>Colorado State Senator Suzanne Williams &#8211; You are a hypocrite. You have been pushing for stiffer enforcement of primary seat belt laws in Colorado and you don&#8217;t even require family members to belt up in the family ride. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/28/texas.senator.fatal.crash/index.html" target="_blank"> Fatal Crash in Texas</a></p>
<p>Why do members of the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">ruling elite</span> political morocracy think they know whats best for all of us peons but don&#8217;t want to abide by the same rules?</p>
<p>I want a job where I can vote my own raises, ignore laws, not pay taxes and pretend I&#8217;m better than everyone else.</p>
<p>Fucking Hypocrite.</p>
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		<title>Higher Taxes = Lower Deficit&#8230;right?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OH Hell</dc:creator>
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<p>Not really.</p>
<p>For every dollar in new taxes, you can expect the government to spend $1.17. This doesn&#8217;t look like they are saving anything here to me. Does it to you?</p>
<p>Erskine Bowles, co-chairman of the president&#8217;s deficit reduction  commission, suggested at a briefing several months ago that there will  be $3 of spending cuts for every $1 of tax increases. President   Reagan  waited his entire presidency for the $3  of spending cuts that Congress promised for every dollar of new taxes he  agreed to in 1982. The cuts never came. What a shocking surprise!!</p>
<p>Draft recommendations of the president&#8217;s commission on deficit  reduction call for closing popular tax deductions, higher gas taxes and  other revenue raisers to drive tax collections up to 21% of GDP from the  historical norm of about 18.5%.</p>
<p>Another plan, proposed last week by  commission member and former Congressional Budget Office director, Alice  Rivlin, would impose a 6.5% national sales tax on consumers. Now I wouldn&#8217;t mind a national sales tax <strong>IF </strong>Congress immediately abolished the IRS,  completely dumped the income tax and the attendant paperwork clusterfuck, and all the other bullshit forms of taxation they have saddled us with in the last 200 years or so. Of course, I haven&#8217;t run any of the numbers on this, so I have no idea if it would work or not. But then Congress never bothers to do their homework either, so why should I?</p>
<p>What is boils down to is the morons running the government can&#8217;t fix what they have managed to fuck up because they are to lazy to do the hard work of READING what is brought before them, making sure it is correct, workable, fair and CONSTITUTIONAL and getting rid of laws, rules and agencies that are unworkable, outdated and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.</p>
<p>Part of the problem is that there are no (immediate) consequences if govt. officials don&#8217;t do the jobs they were elected (hired) to do. Also, it seems that most or these bloodsuckers, once they get elected, spend the rest of their lives, campaigning for reelection. How many of them actually do what they were hired to do and then go home and get a real job?  Hardly any, I would venture to say.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Getting Less Cordial&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OH Hell</dc:creator>
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<p>I sent a letter to my Congress Critters today. It was less than polite. In fact, on reflection it was probably downright rude. On further reflection, I&#8217;m sorry. Not sorry that I sent it. Not sorry that I was rude.</p>
<p>Sorry, that the people we have elected to represent us aren&#8217;t listening to us. Sorry, that they look sincere, nod their heads (kind of like a bobble head doll) and then go ahead and do the things they just said they wouldn&#8217;t do. Sorry, that they evidently don&#8217;t take the oath they swore upon taking office very seriously. Sorry, that they don&#8217;t learn from history.</p>
<p>So far, my letters have elicited a generic form letter, thanking me for my interest. I&#8217;ll be willing to bet that some lower level flunky will (eventually) skim the letter and either file it in the round file or put a tick mark in the spread sheet in the &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t support your policies&#8221; column. I doubt if the Critters themselves will ever see it.</p>
<p>Occasionally, I used to have to grab my Border Collie by the collar and say in my best &#8220;Attention Voice&#8221; &#8220;YOU&#8217;RE NOT LISTENING!!!&#8221;</p>
<p>Do you suppose it works with government officials?</p>
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